The Semantics of Prepositions: From Mental Processing to Natural Language Processing

Frontmatter -- Preface / Zelinsky-Wibbelt, Cornelia -- Contents -- Introduction / Zelinsky-Wibbelt, Cornelia -- 1. Lexicalization patterns of prepositions -- The Dutch spatial preposition "in": A cognitive-semantic analysis / Cuyckens, Hubert -- Dividing up physical and mental space into conceptual categories by means of English prepositions / Dirven, René -- On the grammar of lexical and non-lexical prepositions in English / Rauh, Gisa -- Prepositions: patterns of polysemization and strategies of disambiguation / Taylor, John R. -- 2. Semantic categorization of prepositions and context -- Prepositions and object concepts: A contribution to cognitive semantics / Hottenroth, Priska-Monika -- Semantic and conceptual aspects of the preposition durch / Kaufmann, Ingrid -- The meaning of German projective prepositions: A two-level approach / Lang, Ewald -- 3. Contrastive implications of prepositions -- German temporal prepositions from an English perspective / Durrell, Martin / Brée, David -- On universality and variability in the semantics of spatial adpositions / Hawkins, Bruce W. -- Interpreting and translating prepositions: A cognitively based formalization / Zelinsky-Wibbelt, Cornelia -- 4. Image understanding and prepositions -- A three-level approach to the semantics of space / Aurnague, Michel / Vieu, Laure -- Computing the meaning of localization expressions involving prepositions: The role of concepts and spatial context / Pribbenow, Simone -- A contribution to reference semantics of spatial prepositions: The visualization problem and its solution in VITRA / Schirra, Jörg R. J. -- Index